WO2016068669A1 - 무선랜에서 자원 단위를 할당하는 방법 및 장치 - Google Patents

무선랜에서 자원 단위를 할당하는 방법 및 장치 Download PDF

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WO2016068669A1
WO2016068669A1 PCT/KR2015/011635 KR2015011635W WO2016068669A1 WO 2016068669 A1 WO2016068669 A1 WO 2016068669A1 KR 2015011635 W KR2015011635 W KR 2015011635W WO 2016068669 A1 WO2016068669 A1 WO 2016068669A1
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  • the present invention relates to wireless communication, and more particularly, to a method and apparatus for allocating a resource unit in a WLAN in a WLAN.
  • next-generation WLANs 1) enhancements to the Institute of Electronics and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802.11 physical physical access (PHY) and medium access control (MAC) layers in the 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz bands, and 2) spectral efficiency and area throughput. aim to improve performance in real indoor and outdoor environments, such as environments with interference sources, dense heterogeneous network environments, and high user loads. .
  • IEEE Institute of Electronics and Electronics Engineers
  • PHY physical physical access
  • MAC medium access control
  • next-generation WLAN The environment mainly considered in the next-generation WLAN is a dense environment having many access points (APs) and a station (STA), and improvements in spectral efficiency and area throughput are discussed in such a dense environment.
  • next generation WLAN there is an interest in improving practical performance not only in an indoor environment but also in an outdoor environment, which is not much considered in a conventional WLAN.
  • next-generation WLAN there is a great interest in scenarios such as wireless office, smart home, stadium, hotspot, building / apartment, and AP based on the scenario.
  • STA are discussing about improving system performance in a dense environment with many STAs.
  • next-generation WLAN In addition, in the next-generation WLAN, there will be more discussion about improving system performance in outdoor overlapping basic service set (OBSS) environment, improving outdoor environment performance, and cellular offloading, rather than improving single link performance in one basic service set (BSS). It is expected.
  • the directionality of these next-generation WLANs means that next-generation WLANs will increasingly have a technology range similar to that of mobile communications. Considering the recent situation in which mobile communication and WLAN technology are discussed together in the small cell and direct-to-direct (D2D) communication area, the technical and business convergence of next-generation WLAN and mobile communication is expected to become more active.
  • D2D direct-to-direct
  • An object of the present invention is to provide a method for allocating a resource unit in a WLAN.
  • Still another object of the present invention is to provide an apparatus for allocating a resource unit in a WLAN.
  • An access point transmits a PHY layer protocol data unit (PPDU) to be transmitted to a plurality of STAs.
  • the generating may include transmitting, by the AP, the PPDU to the plurality of STAs on the entire frequency band, wherein the PPDU includes resource allocation information, and the resource allocation information may be configured to allocate a first resource unit.
  • first resource unit allocation information for allocation and second resource unit allocation information for allocation of the second resource unit wherein the first resource unit allocation information indicates the first resource unit on the entire frequency band of the plurality of STAs.
  • Information associated with the allocation of the first resource unit to at least one first STA to receive the PPDU through, and the second resource unit allocation information is the whole of the plurality of STAs.
  • Information related to the allocation of the second resource unit to at least one second STA that will receive the PPDU on the frequency band through the second resource unit, and the number of tones allocated to the first resource unit is the second. It may be more than the number of tones allocated to a resource unit.
  • An access point (AP) for allocating a resource unit in a WLAN operates with a radio frequency (RF) unit for transmitting and receiving a radio signal and the RF unit.
  • RF radio frequency
  • a processor operatively coupled to the processor, wherein the processor generates a PHY layer protocol data unit (PPDU) to be transmitted to a plurality of STAs, and transmits the PPDUs over the entire frequency band to the plurality of STAs.
  • the PPDU may include resource allocation information, and the resource allocation information includes first resource unit allocation information for allocation of a first resource unit and second resource unit allocation information for allocation of a second resource unit.
  • the first resource unit allocation information is assigned to at least one first STA to receive the PPDU through the first resource unit on the entire frequency band of the plurality of STAs.
  • Information associated with the allocation of the first resource unit, and the second resource unit allocation information includes information on at least one second STA that will receive the PPDU through the second resource unit on the entire frequency band of the plurality of STAs.
  • Information related to the allocation of the second resource unit, and the number of tones allocated to the first resource unit may be greater than the number of tones allocated to the second resource unit.
  • resource allocation to each of the plurality of STAs may be performed using radio resource units defined with different sizes. Accordingly, scheduling flexibility may increase and throughput of the WLAN may increase.
  • OFDMA orthogonal frequency division multiple access
  • WLAN wireless local area network
  • FIG. 2 is a conceptual diagram illustrating a method of allocating a resource unit on a bandwidth according to an embodiment of the present invention.
  • FIG. 3 is a conceptual diagram illustrating allocation of resource units on a 20 MHz bandwidth according to an embodiment of the present invention.
  • FIG. 4 is a conceptual diagram illustrating a signaling method for allocation of a resource unit according to an embodiment of the present invention.
  • FIG. 5 is a conceptual diagram illustrating allocation of a resource unit on a 40 MHz bandwidth according to an embodiment of the present invention.
  • FIG. 6 is a conceptual diagram illustrating allocation of resource units on an 80 MHz bandwidth according to an embodiment of the present invention.
  • FIG. 7 is a conceptual diagram illustrating a resource unit scheduling method according to an embodiment of the present invention.
  • FIG. 8 is a conceptual diagram illustrating a resource unit scheduling method according to an embodiment of the present invention.
  • FIG. 9 is a conceptual diagram illustrating a resource unit scheduling method according to an embodiment of the present invention.
  • FIG. 10 is a conceptual diagram illustrating a resource unit scheduling method according to an embodiment of the present invention.
  • FIG. 11 is a flowchart illustrating a resource allocation method of an AP according to an embodiment of the present invention.
  • FIG. 12 is a conceptual diagram illustrating a DL MU PPDU format according to an embodiment of the present invention.
  • FIG. 13 is a conceptual diagram illustrating transmission of an UL MU PPDU according to an embodiment of the present invention.
  • FIG. 14 is a block diagram illustrating a wireless device to which an embodiment of the present invention can be applied.
  • WLAN wireless local area network
  • BSS infrastructure basic service set
  • IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
  • the WLAN system may include one or more infrastructure BSSs 100 and 105 (hereinafter, BSS).
  • BSSs 100 and 105 are a set of APs and STAs such as an access point 125 and a STA1 (station 100-1) capable of successfully synchronizing and communicating with each other, and do not indicate a specific area.
  • the BSS 105 may include one or more joinable STAs 105-1 and 105-2 to one AP 130.
  • the BSS may include at least one STA, APs 125 and 130 for providing a distribution service, and a distribution system (DS) 110 for connecting a plurality of APs.
  • STA STA
  • APs 125 and 130 for providing a distribution service
  • DS distribution system
  • the distributed system 110 may connect several BSSs 100 and 105 to implement an extended service set (ESS) 140 which is an extended service set.
  • ESS 140 may be used as a term indicating one network in which one or several APs 125 and 230 are connected through the distributed system 110.
  • APs included in one ESS 140 may have the same service set identification (SSID).
  • the portal 120 may serve as a bridge for connecting the WLAN network (IEEE 802.11) with another network (for example, 802.X).
  • a network between the APs 125 and 130 and a network between the APs 125 and 130 and the STAs 100-1, 105-1 and 105-2 may be implemented. However, it may be possible to perform communication by setting up a network even between STAs without the APs 125 and 130.
  • a network that performs communication by establishing a network even between STAs without APs 125 and 130 is defined as an ad-hoc network or an independent basic service set (BSS).
  • FIG. 1 is a conceptual diagram illustrating an IBSS.
  • the IBSS is a BSS operating in an ad-hoc mode. Since IBSS does not contain an AP, there is no centralized management entity. That is, in the IBSS, the STAs 150-1, 150-2, 150-3, 155-4, and 155-5 are managed in a distributed manner. In the IBSS, all STAs 150-1, 150-2, 150-3, 155-4, and 155-5 may be mobile STAs, and access to a distributed system is not allowed, thus making a self-contained network. network).
  • a STA is any functional medium that includes medium access control (MAC) conforming to the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802.11 standard and a physical layer interface to a wireless medium. May be used to mean both an AP and a non-AP STA (Non-AP Station).
  • MAC medium access control
  • IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
  • the STA may include a mobile terminal, a wireless device, a wireless transmit / receive unit (WTRU), a user equipment (UE), a mobile station (MS), a mobile subscriber unit ( It may also be called various names such as a mobile subscriber unit or simply a user.
  • WTRU wireless transmit / receive unit
  • UE user equipment
  • MS mobile station
  • UE mobile subscriber unit
  • It may also be called various names such as a mobile subscriber unit or simply a user.
  • the data (or frame) transmitted from the AP to the STA is downlink data (or downlink frame), and the data (or frame) transmitted from the STA to the AP is uplink data (or uplink frame). It can be expressed by the term).
  • the transmission from the AP to the STA may be expressed in terms of downlink transmission, and the transmission from the STA to the AP may be expressed in terms of uplink transmission.
  • each of the PHY protocol data units (PPDUs), frames, and data transmitted through downlink transmission may be expressed in terms of a downlink PPDU, a downlink frame, and downlink data.
  • the PPDU may be a data unit including a PPDU header and a physical layer service data unit (PSDU) (or MAC protocol data unit (MPDU)).
  • PSDU physical layer service data unit
  • MPDU MAC protocol data unit
  • the PPDU header may include a PHY header and a PHY preamble
  • the PSDU (or MPDU) may be a data unit including a frame (or an information unit of a MAC layer) or indicating a frame.
  • the PHY header may be referred to as a physical layer convergence protocol (PLCP) header in another term
  • the PHY preamble may be expressed as a PLCP preamble in another term.
  • each of the PPDUs, frames, and data transmitted through uplink transmission may be represented by the term uplink PPDU, uplink frame, and uplink data.
  • the entire bandwidth is used for downlink transmission to one STA and uplink transmission of one STA based on single-orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (SUDM) transmission.
  • the AP may perform DL (downlink) multi-user (MU) transmission based on MU MIMO (multiple input multiple output), and such transmission may be expressed by the term DL MU MIMO transmission. Can be.
  • an orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) based transmission method may be supported for uplink transmission and downlink transmission.
  • the AP may perform DL MU transmission based on OFDMA, and such transmission may be expressed by the term DL MU OFDMA transmission.
  • the AP may transmit downlink data (or downlink frame, downlink PPDU) to each of the plurality of STAs through the plurality of frequency resources on the overlapped time resources.
  • the plurality of frequency resources may be a plurality of subbands (or subchannels) or a plurality of resource units (RUs) (eg, basic resource units (BRUs) defined with different sizes).
  • DL MU OFDMA transmission can be used with DL MU MIMO transmission. For example, DL MU MIMO transmission based on a plurality of space-time streams (or spatial streams) is performed on a specific subband (or subchannel) allocated for DL MU OFDMA transmission. Can be.
  • UL MU transmission uplink multi-user transmission
  • UL MU transmission may be supported for a plurality of STAs to transmit data to an AP on the same time resource.
  • Uplink transmission on the overlapped time resource by each of the plurality of STAs may be performed in the frequency domain or the spatial domain.
  • different frequency resources may be allocated as uplink transmission resources for each of the plurality of STAs based on OFDMA.
  • the different frequency resources may be different subbands (or subchannels) or different resource units (RUs).
  • Each of the plurality of STAs may transmit uplink data to the AP through different allocated frequency resources.
  • the transmission method through these different frequency resources may be represented by the term UL MU OFDMA transmission method.
  • each of the plurality of STAs When uplink transmission by each of the plurality of STAs is performed in the spatial domain, different space-time streams (or spatial streams) are allocated to each of the plurality of STAs, and each of the plurality of STAs transmits uplink data through different space-time streams. Can transmit to the AP.
  • the transmission method through these different spatial streams may be represented by the term UL MU MIMO transmission method.
  • the UL MU OFDMA transmission and the UL MU MIMO transmission may be performed together.
  • UL MU MIMO transmission based on a plurality of space-time streams (or spatial streams) may be performed on a specific subband (or subchannel) allocated for UL MU OFDMA transmission.
  • a multi-channel allocation method was used to allocate a wider bandwidth (for example, a bandwidth exceeding 20 MHz) to one UE.
  • the multi-channel may include a plurality of 20 MHz channels when one channel unit is 20 MHz.
  • a primary channel rule is used to allocate a wide bandwidth to the terminal. If the primary channel rule is used, there is a constraint for allocating a wide bandwidth to the terminal. Specifically, according to the primary channel rule, when a secondary channel adjacent to the primary channel is used in an overlapped BSS (OBSS) and 'busy', the STA may use the remaining channels except the primary channel. Can not.
  • OBSS overlapped BSS
  • the STA can transmit the frame only through the primary channel, thereby being limited to the transmission of the frame through the multi-channel. That is, the primary channel rule used for multi-channel allocation in the existing WLAN system may be a big limitation in obtaining high throughput by operating a wide bandwidth in the current WLAN environment where there are not many OBSS.
  • a WLAN system supporting an orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) technique is disclosed.
  • OFDMA technology When OFDMA technology is used, a plurality of terminals may be used simultaneously instead of one terminal without using a primary channel rule. Therefore, wide bandwidth operation is possible, and the efficiency of the operation of radio resources can be improved.
  • a time-frequency structure assumed in a WLAN system may be as follows.
  • 256 FFT / IFFT is applied for a bandwidth of 20 MHz
  • 512 FFT / IFFT is applied for a bandwidth of 40 MHz
  • 1024 FFT / IFFT is applied for a bandwidth of 80 MHz
  • 2048 FFT for a bandwidth of 160 MHz continuous or discontinuous 160 MHz.
  • IFFT can be applied.
  • the IDFT / DFT length (or effective symbol length) based on inverse discrete fourier transform (IDFT) / discrete fourier transform (DFT) (or FFT / IFFT) may be N times the IDFT / DFT length in the existing WLAN system. .
  • the length of an OFDM symbol may be a value obtained by adding a length of a guard interval (GI) to an IDFT / DFT length.
  • the length of the GI can be various values such as 0.4 ⁇ s, 0.8 ⁇ s, 1.6 ⁇ s, 2.4 ⁇ s, 3.2 ⁇ s.
  • a basic resource unit for OFDMA-based resource allocation may be defined as 26 tons of resource units and 242 tons of resource units.
  • a 26 tonne resource unit may include 24 tonnes of data and 2 tonnes of pilot tones.
  • the resource unit of 242 tonnes may include 234 tonnes of data and 8 tonnes of pilot tones.
  • An interleaver of size 234 may be applied to a resource unit of 242 tons, and an interleaver of 24 sizes may be applied to a resource unit of 26 tons, thereby interleaving data tones. Tone may be interpreted as having the same meaning as a subcarrier.
  • the number and allocation positions of pilot tones / data tones based on the existing 242 tons of numerology of IEEE 802.11ac may be applied.
  • the number and allocation of pilot tones / data tones based on the existing 242-tonneerology of IEEE 802.11ac is IEEE Standard for Information technology telecommunications and information exchange between systems local and metropolitan area networks specific requirements' Part 11: Wireless LAN Medium Access Control (MAC) and Physical Layer (PHY) Specifications Amendment 4: Enhancements for Very High Throughput for Operation in Bands below 6 GHz at 22.3.10.10 Pilot subcarriers.
  • MAC Wireless LAN Medium Access Control
  • PHY Physical Layer
  • the resource unit of 242 tons may be a virtual allocation resource unit.
  • the virtual allocation resource unit may be generated based on a combination of resource units smaller than the virtual allocation resource unit.
  • the 242 tonne resource unit may be a combination of a plurality of 26 tonnes of resource units, an additional leftover tone, and a 121 tonnes of resource units.
  • the virtual allocation resource unit may be a resource unit for recycling the interleaver size and OFDM numerology (or tone neuralology) of the existing WLAN system.
  • the number and allocation positions of pilot tones / data tones based on the 26-tonne numerology of the existing IEEE 802.11ah may be applied.
  • the number and allocation of pilot tones / data tones based on the existing 26-tonne numerology of IEEE 802.11ah are IEEE P802.11ah TM / D5.0 Draft Standard for Information technology tele-communications and information exchange between systems Local and metropolitan area network specific requirements as described in 24.3.9.10 Pilot subcarriers of Part 11: Wireless LAN Medium Access Control (MAC) and Physical Layer (PHY) Specifications Amendment 2: Sub 1 GHz License ExemptOperation.
  • MAC Wireless LAN Medium Access Control
  • PHY Physical Layer
  • the AP may determine downlink transmission resources and / or uplink transmission resources for at least one STA based on the above-described resource units of different sizes.
  • the AP may transmit at least one PPDU to at least one STA through the scheduled downlink transmission resource.
  • the AP may receive at least one PPDU transmitted by at least one STA through the scheduled uplink transmission resource.
  • the basic resource unit includes a left guard tone, a right guard tone, and a DC located in the center of the entire bandwidth for interference mitigation located at both ends of the overall bandwidth over the entire bandwidth (or available bandwidth). direct current) may be allocated in consideration of the tone.
  • the basic resource unit can be used for user allocation separation (or STA-specific resource allocation), common pilot, automatic gain control (AGC), phase tracking, and the like. It may be allocated in consideration of a leftover tone (or a remaining tone).
  • An allocation method (allocation number, allocation location, etc.) of the basic resource unit on the entire bandwidth may be set in consideration of resource utilization efficiency and scalability (or scalability) according to the overall bandwidth.
  • the allocation method of the basic resource unit may be signaled based on a predefined or various methods (eg, signaling based on a signal field included in the PPDU header of the PPDU).
  • tone numerology for each of the bandwidths of 20 MHz, 40 MHz, and 80 MHz may be as follows.
  • the resource allocation method of each bandwidth as below is one example, and resource allocation on each bandwidth may be performed in various ways.
  • the left guard tone may be defined as 6 tons
  • the direct current (DC) tone is 3 tones
  • the right guard tone may be defined as 5 tones.
  • Resource allocation on a bandwidth may be performed based on a resource unit of 26 tons and / or a resource unit of 242 tons for a 20 MHz bandwidth.
  • the left guard tone can be defined as 6 tons
  • the DC tone is 9 tones
  • the right guard tone is 5 tones.
  • 492 tons may be available for the 40 MHz bandwidth, and resource allocation on the bandwidth may be performed based on 26 ton resource units and / or 242 ton resource units on the 492 tones.
  • the left guard tone may be defined as 6 tons
  • the DC tone is 5 tones
  • the right guard tone is 5 tones.
  • 496 tonnes may be available for the 40 MHz bandwidth, and resource allocation on the bandwidth may be performed based on 26 tonnes and / or 242 tonnes resource units on the 496 tonnes.
  • the left guard tone may be defined as 11 tons
  • the DC tone is 3 tones
  • the right guard tone is 10 tones.
  • 1000 tons may be available for the 80 MHz bandwidth, and resource allocation on the bandwidth may be performed based on 26 tons of resource units and / or 242 tons of resource units on the 1000 tons.
  • the left guard tone may be defined as 6 tons for the 80 MHz bandwidth, 5 tons for the DC tone, and 5 tons for the right guard tone.
  • 1008 tons may be available for the 80 MHz bandwidth, and resource allocation on the bandwidth may be performed based on 26 tons and / or 242 tons of resource units on the 1008 tons.
  • the leftover tone is not shown in the figure for convenience of description, but may be located between 26 ton resource units and 242 ton resource units.
  • FIG. 2 is a conceptual diagram illustrating a method of allocating a resource unit on a bandwidth according to an embodiment of the present invention.
  • 242 tons of resource units may be allocated first on the available tones, 242 tons of resource units may be allocated, and 26 tons of resource units may be allocated on the remaining available tones. .
  • the number of allocations available for each bandwidth and the allocation position may be predefined.
  • an allocation position of 242 tons of resource units may be defined according to the number of 242 tons of resource units allocated for each of bandwidths of 20 MHz, 40 MHz, or 80 MHz, and the number of resource units of 242 tons allocated. If the allocation number and allocation position for the 242 tons of resource units is determined for each bandwidth, the allocation number and allocation position of the 26 tons of resource units to be allocated to the remaining available bandwidth may be determined. When no resource unit of 242 tons is allocated to each bandwidth, the allocation location and the number of allocation of the 26 ton resource units may be fixed in advance.
  • FIG. 3 is a conceptual diagram illustrating allocation of resource units on a 20 MHz bandwidth according to an embodiment of the present invention.
  • a resource unit of one 242 tones may be allocated on the available tones on the 20 MHz bandwidth.
  • the available tones may be remaining tones except left guard tone, right guard tone and DC tone.
  • the resource unit of 242 tonnes may be a combination of two 121 tonnes divided resource units based on the DC tone.
  • One 242 ton resource unit may be allocated to one STA on a 20 MHz bandwidth.
  • One 242-tone resource unit may be allocated to one STA on a 20MHz bandwidth for single user (SU) based transmission.
  • SU single user
  • separate resource allocation information may not be included in the header of the PPDU. If MU OFDMA-based transmission is not performed and resources for a plurality of STAs are multiplexed and allocated to one 242 ton resource unit for MU-MIMO-based transmission, separate resource allocation information is added to the header of the PPDU. May not be included. In this case, the number information of STAs allocated to MU-MIMO may be included in the header of the PPDU.
  • the STA has one 242-tone resource unit on the 20 MHz bandwidth based only on information of the total bandwidth size (for example, 20 MHz) and information on the STA allocated on the entire bandwidth (the information that only the STA is allocated on the entire bandwidth). It can be seen that the allocation to the STA of.
  • only 26 tons of resource units may be used for resource allocation for each of the plurality of STAs without allocating 242 tons of resource units on the 20 MHz bandwidth.
  • one STA may be allocated at least one 26 ton resource unit on a 20 MHz bandwidth.
  • Up to nine 26 tons of resource units can be allocated on the 20 MHz bandwidth.
  • one STA may be allocated one 26 ton resource unit. That is, when 26 tons of resource units are allocated, resources may be allocated to up to nine STAs simultaneously on a 20 MHz bandwidth.
  • One 26 tonne resource unit may be divided into two 13 tonne divided resource units based on the DC tone.
  • each of a plurality of (e.g., nine) 26 ton resource units on the 20 MHz bandwidth may be fixed and based on resource unit allocation signaling (or signaling indication). As such, each of a plurality of 26 ton resource units may be sequentially allocated to individual STAs.
  • FIG. 4 is a conceptual diagram illustrating a signaling method for allocation of a resource unit according to an embodiment of the present invention.
  • a method of allocating a resource unit to an STA is disclosed based on identification information on an STA receiving a PPDU and information on the number of resource units allocated to the STA.
  • the PPDU header includes information on a plurality of STAs (receive STA identification information 400) for receiving a PPDU and information about resource units allocated to each of the plurality of STAs for receiving a PPDU (resource allocation information). (450)).
  • the receiving STA identification information 400 may sequentially include identifier information (eg, association identifier (AID)) of each of the plurality of STAs.
  • the resource allocation information 450 may sequentially include information about the number of resource units allocated for each of the plurality of STAs.
  • Each of the plurality of STAs sequentially indicated by the reception STA identification information 400 may correspond to information about the number of resource units allocated to each of the plurality of STAs sequentially included by the resource allocation information 450. .
  • Each of the plurality of STAs sequentially indicated by the reception STA identification information 400 may be allocated resource units sequentially listed on the frequency axis in consideration of information about the number of resource units allocated to each of the plurality of STAs.
  • resource units 1 to 9 are sequentially allocated on the frequency axis, receiving STA identification information sequentially indicates STA1, STA2, and STA3, and resource allocation information is three, It may be assumed that two and four are sequentially indicated.
  • STA1 may be allocated three resource units
  • STA2 may be allocated two resource units
  • STA3 may be allocated four resource units.
  • the resource units 1 to 9 may be sequentially allocated to each of the STA1, STA2, and STA3 in consideration of the number of resource units allocated to each of the STA1, STA2, and STA3.
  • STA1 is allocated a resource unit 1, a resource unit 2, a resource unit 3, STA2 is allocated a resource unit 4, a resource unit 5, STA3 is assigned a resource unit 6, resource unit 7, resource unit 8 and resource unit 9 Can be assigned.
  • each of the plurality of resource units may be sequentially allocated to each of the plurality of STAs.
  • the resource allocation method may be expressed as a resource allocation method based on resource unit allocation signaling / signaling indication.
  • the resource allocation method based on the resource unit allocation signaling / signaling indication may indirectly indicate the resource unit allocated to each of the plurality of STAs without a direct indication of the resource unit allocated to each of the plurality of STAs.
  • FIG. 5 is a conceptual diagram illustrating allocation of a resource unit on a 40 MHz bandwidth according to an embodiment of the present invention.
  • two 242 tons of resource units may be allocated on the available tones on the 40 MHz bandwidth.
  • Two 242 tons of resource units may be allocated to one STA on a 40 MHz bandwidth. That is, two 242 ton resource units may be allocated to one STA on a 40 MHz bandwidth for SU-based transmission.
  • separate resource allocation information may not be included in the header of the PPDU. If MU OFDMA based transmission is not performed and resources for a plurality of STAs are multiplexed and allocated to two 242 ton resource units for MU-MIMO based transmission, separate resource allocation information is added to the header of the PPDU. May not be included. In this case, the number information of STAs allocated to MU-MIMO may be included in the header of the PPDU.
  • the STA has two resource units of 242 tones on the 40 MHz bandwidth based only on information of the total bandwidth size (for example, 40 MHz) and information on the STA allocated on the entire bandwidth (the information that only the STA is allocated on the entire bandwidth). You can see that it is assigned.
  • Two 242 tones of resource units may be allocated to each of the two STAs on the 40 MHz bandwidth. 26 tons of resource units may not be used for allocation of resource units. As described above, two STAs may be allocated each of two 242 tones of resource units based on sequential resource unit allocation signaling on the PPDU header.
  • one 242 ton resource unit may be allocated on the available tones of 40 MHz bandwidth and a plurality of 26 ton resource units may be allocated on the remaining available tones.
  • One 242 ton of resource units may be allocated to one STA, and the remaining 26 tons of resource units may be allocated to at least one STA. For example, nine 26 tonnes of resource units may be allocated on the remaining available tones.
  • Each of the nine 26 ton resource units may be allocated to each of up to nine STAs.
  • an allocation position of 242 tons of resource units and an allocation position of each of a plurality of 26 tons of resource units may be fixed.
  • Each of 242 tons of resource units and a plurality of 26 tons of resource units may be individually allocated, and the plurality of 26 tons of resource units may be allocated to a plurality of STAs based on resource unit allocation signaling.
  • resource allocation based on only 26 tonnes of resource units may be performed without allocating 242 tonnes of resource units on the available tones of the 40 MHz bandwidth.
  • a total of 19 26 tons of resource units may be allocated on the frequency axis.
  • the 26 ton resource unit may be divided into two 13 ton divided resource units.
  • Nine 26 tons of resource units + 13 tons of divided resource units are allocated between DC tones and left guard tones, and 9 26 tons of resource units + 13 tons of divided resource units based on DC tones.
  • a plurality of 26 tons of resource units may be allocated to a plurality of STAs based on resource unit allocation signaling.
  • FIG. 6 is a conceptual diagram illustrating allocation of resource units on an 80 MHz bandwidth according to an embodiment of the present invention.
  • four 242 tonne resource units may be allocated on the available tones on the 80 MHz bandwidth.
  • Four 242 tons of resource units may be allocated to one STA on an 80 MHz bandwidth.
  • four 242 ton resource units may be allocated to one STA on an 80 MHz bandwidth.
  • additional resource allocation information is added to the header of the PPDU. May not be included. In this case, the number information of STAs allocated to MU-MIMO may be included in the header of the PPDU.
  • the STA has four 242 ton resource units on the 80 MHz bandwidth based only on the information of the total bandwidth size (for example, 80 MHz) and information on the STA allocated on the entire bandwidth (the information that only the STA is allocated on the entire bandwidth). It can be seen that the assignment.
  • resource units including two 242 ton resource units may be individually allocated to each of two STAs on an 80 MHz bandwidth. That is, two 242 ton resource units may be allocated to STA1 and two 242 ton resource units may be allocated to STA2. A 26 ton resource unit may not be used for resource unit allocation. As described above, each of the two STAs may be allocated each resource unit including two 242 ton resource units based on sequential resource unit allocation signaling on the PPDU header.
  • two 242 tones of resource units are allocated to each of two STAs on an 80 MHz bandwidth, and a plurality of 26 tons of resources allocated to the remaining available tones to other plurality of STAs.
  • Each unit may be assigned.
  • 19 26 tons of resource units may be allocated on the remaining available tones. In this case, up to 19 STAs may be allocated on 19 26 tons of resource units to receive services.
  • 20 26 tons of resource units may be allocated on the remaining available tones. In this case, up to 20 STAs may be allocated on 20 26 ton resource units to receive a service.
  • one 242 ton resource unit is allocated to one STA on an 80 MHz bandwidth, and each of a plurality of 26 ton resource units allocated to the remaining available tones to another plurality of STAs. May be assigned. 29 26 tonnes of resource units may be allocated on the remaining available tones except for one 242 tonnes of resources, and each of 29 26 tones of resource units may be allocated to each of up to 29 STAs.
  • resource allocation based on only 26 ton resource units may be performed on the 80 MHz bandwidth without 242 ton resource units.
  • 38 26 ton resource units may be allocated on the 80 MHz bandwidth, and each of the 38 26 ton resource units may be allocated to each of up to 38 STAs.
  • FIG. 7 is a conceptual diagram illustrating a resource unit scheduling method according to an embodiment of the present invention.
  • FIG. 7 a method for effectively signaling information about allocation for two different size resource units is disclosed.
  • information on allocation of a resource unit may be transmitted based on a logical grouping of resource units of the same size. For example, at least one resource unit of 242 tons allocated on the bandwidth may be grouped into the first resource unit group 700. In addition, at least one 26 ton resource unit allocated on the bandwidth may be grouped into the second resource unit group 750.
  • the resource unit included in the first resource unit group 700 may be expressed in terms of a first resource unit (or basic resource unit, BRU).
  • the resource unit included in the second resource unit group 750 eg, 26 ton resource unit
  • Each of the plurality of grouped resource units may be listed (or ordered) based on the size of the allocated frequency band.
  • the plurality of 242 ton resource units included in the first resource unit group 700 may be ordered in the order of increasing (or decreasing) the allocated frequency, or individual indexes according to the ordering may be allocated.
  • the plurality of 26 ton resource units included in the second resource unit group 750 may be ordered in the order of increasing (or decreasing) the allocated frequency, or individual indexes according to the ordering may be allocated.
  • the first resource unit group 700 which is a group for the first relatively large resource unit, is located on the logical domain
  • the second resource unit group 750 which is a group for the second relatively small resource unit, is located. Can be logically located later.
  • the first resource unit included in the first resource unit group 700 may be preferentially allocated, and the second resource unit included in the second resource unit group 750 may be allocated later. . That is, resource allocation for resource units of 242 tons may be preferentially performed, and resource allocation for resource units of 26 tons may be performed on the remaining available tones.
  • the order for allocating resource units may be changed according to the system environment and supporting traffic conditions.
  • the number of resource units of 242 tons allocated may be predefined as shown in the table below.
  • the number of resource units of 26 tons that can be allocated for each bandwidth may be predetermined according to the allocation number of resource units of 242 tons.
  • Resource unit allocation signaling may be sequentially performed based on Table 1 above. For example, when one resource unit of 242 tons is allocated on a 40 MHz bandwidth, nine resource units of 26 tons may be allocated. The STA may be allocated at least one 26 ton resource unit among nine 26 ton resource units based on the resource unit allocation signaling. As another example, when the number of resource units of 242 tones allocated on the 80 MHz bandwidth is 1, the STA may be allocated at least one 26 ton resource unit of 29 26 ton resource units based on resource unit allocation signaling. .
  • Resource unit allocation signaling may be performed for each of the first resource unit group 700 and the second resource unit group 750. Resource allocation information for the allocation for the first resource unit included in the first resource unit group 700 and resource allocation information for the allocation for the second resource unit included in the second resource unit group 750 are separately transmitted. Can be. In other words, resource unit allocation signaling may be separately performed for each of the first resource unit group 700 and the second resource unit group 750.
  • Resource allocation information for the first resource unit group 700 may be related to resource allocation information for the second resource unit. As described above, when the number and / or location of the first resource units allocated on the frequency axis are determined, the number and / or location of the second resource units allocated on the frequency axis may be determined dependently.
  • Resource allocation information for the first resource unit group 700 is to be transmitted to each STA to which 242 tons of resource units are allocated through the HE-SIG-B (eg, the first symbol of HE-SIG B) on the PPDU header.
  • the HE-SIG A included in the PPDU header may include common information, and the HE-SIG B included in the PPDU header may include STA-specific information. That is, the resource allocation information for the first resource unit group 700 may be transmitted as STA specific information through the HE-SIG B.
  • the resource allocation information for the first resource unit group 700 is transmitted through the HE-SIG-A on the PPDU header, and other STAs allocated to the second resource unit included in the second resource unit group 750 are also HE. Decode the SIG A and determine a second resource unit to be allocated based on resource allocation information for the first resource unit group 700. That is, the resource allocation information for the first resource unit group 700 may be transmitted as general information through the HE-SIG A, and may receive not only an STA that has been allocated a resource unit of 242 tons but also another STA.
  • FIG. 8 is a conceptual diagram illustrating a resource unit scheduling method according to an embodiment of the present invention.
  • FIG. 8 a resource allocation method for a first resource unit group (or resource unit of 242 tons) is disclosed.
  • the PPDU header may include information about the allocation of the first resource unit (eg, the allocation number of the first resource unit) 800 on the entire bandwidth.
  • a bitmap or signaling bit of one bit with respect to a 20 MHz bandwidth may include information about allocation of one 242 ton resource unit on the 20 MHz bandwidth.
  • the 2-bit bitmap or signaling bit for the 40-MHz bandwidth may include information on allocation of 242 tons of resource units on the 40-MHz bandwidth.
  • a 2-bit bitmap or signaling bit may indicate whether the allocation number of resource units of 242 tones is 0, 1, or 2 on a 40 MHz bandwidth.
  • the information about the allocation of the 242 ton resource unit may indicate a 242 ton unit or a 484 ton unit.
  • the 2-bit bitmap or signaling bit for the 80 MHz bandwidth may include information related to the allocation of 242 tons of resource units on the 80 MHz bandwidth.
  • a 2-bit bitmap or signaling bit may indicate whether the allocation number of resource units of 242 tones is one, two, or four on an 80 MHz bandwidth.
  • the information about the allocation of the 242 ton resource unit may indicate a 242 ton unit, a 484 ton unit or a 996 ton unit.
  • a bitmap including information on allocation of 242 tons of resource units defined by the same size regardless of the size of the bandwidth may be defined.
  • the size of the bitmap including information about the allocation of 242 tons of resource units is defined as 2 bits, and the 2-bit bitmap may indicate the number of allocations of 242 tons of resource units allocated to each of the 20 MHz, 40 MHz, and 80 MHz bandwidths. Can be.
  • FIG. 9 is a conceptual diagram illustrating a resource unit scheduling method according to an embodiment of the present invention.
  • a method of indicating allocation of a first resource unit group (242 ton resource units) to an STA is disclosed.
  • the allocation of each of the 242 tons of resource units to STAs is defined differently for each bandwidth, the allocation of the 242 tons of resource units to each STA may be indicated in the following manner.
  • the PPDU header may include information about the allocation of the first resource unit for each STA (eg, the number of allocation of the first resource unit) 900.
  • one bit may be used as resource allocation information for a first group of resource units (or 242 tons of resource units) on a 20 MHz bandwidth. Only one 242 ton resource unit can be allocated on the 20 MHz bandwidth. Therefore, based on only one bit of resource allocation information, it may be indicated to the STA whether to allocate 242 tons of resource units. For example, when 1 bit of resource allocation information indicates '1', allocation of 242 tons of resource units may be instructed to the STA.
  • Two bits on the 40 MHz bandwidth may be used as resource allocation information for the first resource unit group.
  • two 242 tons of resource units may be allocated.
  • One 242 ton resource unit (the first 242 ton resource unit) is allocated in the left guard tone direction based on the DC tone, and one 242 ton resource unit (the second in the right guard tone direction based on the DC tone. 242 tonnes of resource units) may be allocated. Therefore, based on the 2-bit resource allocation information, an allocated 242 ton resource unit among two 242 ton resource units may be indicated to the STA. For example, when the 2-bit resource allocation information is '10', it may be indicated that the resource unit of the first 242 tones is allocated to the STA.
  • Four bits on the 80 MHz bandwidth may be used as resource allocation information for the first resource unit group.
  • four 242 tons of resource units can be allocated.
  • Two 242 tonnes of resource units (a first 242 tonnes and a second 242 tonnes) are allocated in the direction of the left guard tone based on the DC tone, and two 242 tonnes are allocated in the right guard tone direction based on the DC tone.
  • 242 tonnes of resource units (third 242 tonnes of resources, fourth 242 tonnes of resources) may be allocated. Therefore, based on 4 bits of resource allocation information, an allocated 242 ton resource unit among four 242 ton resource units may be indicated to the STA. For example, when the 4-bit resource allocation information is '1100', it may be indicated to the STA that the first 242 ton resource unit and the second 242 ton resource unit are allocated.
  • resource allocation information for the STA may be transmitted based on a 4-bit bitmap regardless of the size of the bandwidth.
  • resource allocation information may be transmitted to the STA based on the 4-bit bitmap of the HE-SIG B.
  • the STA when the start offset of the resource unit to which the STA is allocated (or the starting position on the frequency axis) is known as identification information about the STA such as an AID, the STA is located in the position of the allocated resource unit only by the information on the number of allocated resource units. It can be seen.
  • FIG. 10 is a conceptual diagram illustrating a resource unit scheduling method according to an embodiment of the present invention.
  • a method of allocating a second resource unit group (26 tons of resource units) to an STA is disclosed.
  • the allocation of 26 tons of resource units to each STA is defined differently according to the size of bandwidth, the allocation of 26 tons of resource units to each STA may be indicated by the following method.
  • the size of the bitmap may change. For example, when the number of resource units of 26 tons that can be allocated on the frequency axis is changed based on the allocation number of resource units of 242 tons, the size of the bitmap for the resource unit of 26 tons may change.
  • an indication of a resource unit allocated to the STA as information on the start offset of the resource unit allocated to the STA and the allocation number information of the resource unit allocated to the STA Is possible.
  • the start offset of the resource unit may indicate a position at which allocation to the resource unit starts.
  • the information on the start offset of the resource unit allocated to the STA may be determined based on the information on the identifier of the STA to which the 26 ton resource unit is allocated.
  • the STA is allocated to the STA based on the identifier information. Know the starting position of the resource unit.
  • a 26 ton resource unit allocated to the STA may be indicated on the basis of a bitmap capable of indicating each of 26 ton resource units allocable on the frequency axis.
  • FIG. 10 when a STA knows start offset information for resource allocation based on identifier information, a method of informing information about the number of resource units allocated to the STA is disclosed.
  • FIG. 10 a case in which a size of a bit corresponding to information about the number of resource units allocated according to a bandwidth is changed.
  • the PPDU header may include information about the allocation of the second resource unit for each STA (eg, the allocation number of the second resource unit) 1000.
  • a 4-bit bitmap or signaling bit for a 20 MHz bandwidth may be used to indicate allocation of 1 to 9 resource units to a STA.
  • a 5 bit bitmap or signaling bit for the 40 MHz bandwidth may be used to indicate the allocation of 1 to 18 (or 19) resource units to the STA.
  • a 6-bit bitmap or signaling bit for the 80 MHz bandwidth may be used to indicate the allocation of 1 to 38 resource units to the STA.
  • the STA may be allocated the indicated number of resource units based on the information on the number of resource units based on the start offset of the resource units to be allocated.
  • a 6-bit bitmap or signaling bit may indicate the number of 26 ton resource units allocated on the frequency axis.
  • information on the location and number of 26 ton resource units allocated using a bitmap or signaling bits according to the total number of 26 ton resource units may be informed at a time.
  • FIG. 11 is a flowchart illustrating a resource allocation method of an AP according to an embodiment of the present invention.
  • FIG. 11 exemplarily illustrates an operation for resource allocation of the AP described above with reference to FIGS. 2 to 10.
  • the AP generates a PPDU to be transmitted to a plurality of STAs (step S1100).
  • the PPDU may include resource allocation information.
  • the resource allocation information may include first resource unit allocation information for allocation of the first resource unit and second resource unit allocation information for allocation of the second resource unit.
  • the first resource unit allocation information may be information related to the allocation of the first resource unit to at least one first STA to receive the PPDU through the first resource unit on the entire frequency band among a plurality of STAs.
  • the second resource unit allocation information may be information related to the allocation of the second resource unit to at least one second STA that will receive the PPDU through the second resource unit on the entire frequency band of a plurality of STAs.
  • the number of tones allocated to the first resource unit (eg, 242 ton resource unit) may be greater than the number of tones allocated to the second resource unit (26 ton resource unit).
  • the second resource unit information may be generated based on the size of the entire frequency band and the number of second resource units allocable on the available tones other than the tones allocated to the first resource unit.
  • the tone allocated to the first resource unit may be determined based on the first resource unit information.
  • the first resource unit allocation information may be generated based on the number of first resource units allocable according to the size of the entire frequency band
  • the second resource unit information may be generated in the first resource unit according to the size of the entire frequency band. It may be generated based on the number in the second resource unit that can be allocated on the remaining available tones except the allocated tones.
  • the PPDU generated by the AP may further include receiving STA identification information, and the receiving STA identification information may include at least one first identification information for each of the at least one first STA that will receive the first resource unit, and the second. Each of the at least one second identification information for each of the at least one second STA to receive the resource unit may be sequentially included.
  • the first resource unit allocation information may include information on the number of first resource units to be allocated to each of the at least one first STAs that sequentially correspond to each of the at least one first identification information.
  • the second resource unit allocation information may include information about the number of second resource units to be allocated to each of the at least one second STA corresponding to each of the at least one second identification information sequentially.
  • the first resource unit may be continuously allocated to each of the at least one first STA based on the order in the received STA identification information of the at least one first identification information on the entire frequency band.
  • the second resource unit may be sequentially allocated to each of the at least one second STAs based on the order in the reception STA identification information of the at least one second identification information on the entire frequency band.
  • the AP transmits the PPDU to the plurality of STAs on the entire frequency band (step S1110).
  • FIG. 12 is a conceptual diagram illustrating a DL MU PPDU format according to an embodiment of the present invention.
  • FIG. 12 illustrates a DL MU PPDU format transmitted based on OFDMA by an AP according to an embodiment of the present invention.
  • the PPDU header of the DL MU PPDU includes a legacy short training field (L-STF), a legacy long training field (L-LTF), a legacy-signal (L-SIG), and a HE-SIG A (high).
  • efficiency-signal A), high efficiency-signal-B (HE-SIG B), high efficiency-short training field (HE-STF), high efficiency-long training field (HE-LTF), data field (or MAC payload ) May be included.
  • From the PHY header to the L-SIG may be divided into a legacy part and a high efficiency (HE) part after the L-SIG.
  • the L-STF 1200 may include a short training orthogonal frequency division multiplexing symbol.
  • the L-STF 1200 may be used for frame detection, automatic gain control (AGC), diversity detection, and coarse frequency / time synchronization.
  • AGC automatic gain control
  • the L-LTF 1210 may include a long training orthogonal frequency division multiplexing symbol.
  • the L-LTF 1210 may be used for fine frequency / time synchronization and channel prediction.
  • L-SIG 1220 may be used to transmit control information.
  • the L-SIG 1220 may include information about a data rate and a data length.
  • the HE-SIG A 1230 may include information for indicating an STA to receive the DL MU PPDU.
  • the HE-SIG A 1230 may include an identifier of a specific STA (or AP) to receive a PPDU, and information for indicating a group of the specific STA.
  • the HE-SIG A 1230 may also include resource allocation information for receiving the DL MU PPDU of the STA.
  • the HE-SIG A 1230 may include color bits information, bandwidth information, tail bits, CRC bits, and MCSs for the HE-SIG B 1240 for BSS identification information. It may include modulation and coding scheme information, symbol number information for the HE-SIG B 1240, and cyclic prefix (CP) (or guard interval (GI)) length information.
  • CP cyclic prefix
  • GI guard interval
  • the HE-SIG B 1240 may include information about a length MCS of a physical layer service data unit (PSDU) for each STA, tail bits, and the like. In addition, the HE-SIG B 1240 may include information on an STA to receive a PPDU, OFDMA-based resource allocation information (or MU-MIMO information). When the HE-SIG B 1240 includes OFDMA-based resource allocation information (or MU-MIMO related information), the HE-SIG A 1230 may not include resource allocation information.
  • PSDU physical layer service data unit
  • the HE-SIG A 1250 or the HE-SIG B 1260 may include receiving STA identification information and resource allocation information.
  • the reception STA identification information may include a plurality of STAs that will sequentially receive the PPDU, and the resource allocation information may include information about the number of resource units allocated to each of the plurality of STAs sequentially.
  • the HE-SIG A 1250 or the HE-SIG B 1260 may include reception STA identification information and resource allocation information for the first resource unit group (or first resource unit) and the second resource unit group (or second resource unit). ) May include separately received STA identification information and resource allocation information.
  • the HE-SIG A 1250 or the HE-SIG B 1260 may directly indicate each of the first resource unit and the second resource unit allocated to each of the plurality of STAs based on the bitmap information. .
  • the previous field of the HE-SIG B 1240 on the DL MU PPDU may be transmitted in duplicated form in each of different transmission resources.
  • the HE-SIG B 1240 transmitted in some resource units (for example, resource unit 1 and resource unit 2) is an independent field including individual information, and the remaining resources.
  • the HE-SIG B 1240 transmitted in a unit (for example, resource unit 3 and resource unit 4) is an HE-SIG B 1240 transmitted in another resource unit (for example, resource unit 1 and resource unit 2). ) May be in a format duplicated.
  • the HE-SIG B 1240 may be transmitted in an encoded form on all transmission resources.
  • the field after the HE-SIG B 1240 may include individual information for each of the plurality of STAs that receive the PPDU.
  • the HE-STF 1250 may be used to improve automatic gain control estimation in a multiple input multiple output (MIMO) environment or an OFDMA environment.
  • MIMO multiple input multiple output
  • OFDMA orthogonal frequency division multiple access
  • the STA1 may receive the HE-STF1 transmitted through the resource unit 1 from the AP, and decode the data field 1 (or frame 1) by performing synchronization, channel tracking / prediction, and AGC.
  • the STA2 may receive the HE-STF2 transmitted through the resource unit 2 from the AP, and decode the data field 2 (or frame 2) by performing synchronization, channel tracking / prediction, and AGC.
  • the STA3 may receive the HE-STF3 transmitted through the resource unit 3 from the AP, and decode the data field 3 (or frame 3) by performing synchronization, channel tracking / prediction, and AGC.
  • the STA4 may receive the HE-STF4 transmitted through the resource unit 4 from the AP, and decode the data field 4 (or frame 4) by performing synchronization, channel tracking / prediction, and AGC.
  • the HE-LTF 1260 may be used to estimate a channel in a MIMO environment or an OFDMA environment.
  • the size of the IFFT applied to the fields after the HE-STF 1250 and the HE-STF 1250 and the size of the IFFT applied to the field before the HE-STF 1250 may be different.
  • the size of the IFFT applied to the fields after the HE-STF 1250 and the HE-STF 1250 may be four times larger than the size of the IFFT applied to the field before the HE-STF 1250.
  • the STA may receive the HE-SIG A 1230 and may be instructed to receive the downlink PPDU based on the HE-SIG A 1230.
  • the STA may perform decoding based on the changed FFT size from the field after the HE-STF 1250 and the HE-STF 1250.
  • the STA may stop decoding and configure a network allocation vector (NAV).
  • NAV network allocation vector
  • the cyclic prefix (CP) of the HE-STF 1250 may have a larger size than the CP of another field, and during this CP period, the STA may perform decoding on the downlink PPDU by changing the FFT size.
  • An access point allocates each of a plurality of resource units for each of a plurality of STAs over the entire bandwidth, and each of the individual data fields (or frames) for each of the plurality of STAs through each of the plurality of resource units to each of the plurality of STAs. ) Can be sent.
  • Information about the allocation of each of the plurality of resource units for each of the plurality of STAs may be included in the HE-SIG A 1250 or the HE-SIG B 1260 as described above.
  • FIG. 13 is a conceptual diagram illustrating transmission of an UL MU PPDU according to an embodiment of the present invention.
  • a plurality of STAs may transmit UL MU PPDUs to an AP based on UL MU OFDMA.
  • the L-STF 1300, the L-LTF 1310, the L-SIG 1320, the HE-SIG A 1330, and the HE-SIG B 1340 may perform the roles disclosed in FIG. 12.
  • Information included in the signal field L-SIG 1320, HE-SIG A 1330, and HE-SIG B 1340 may be generated based on information included in the signal field of the received DL MU PPDU. .
  • the STA1 may perform uplink transmission through the entire bandwidth up to the HE-SIG B 1340 and uplink transmission through the allocated bandwidth after the HE-STF 1350.
  • the STA1 may transmit an uplink frame based on the UL MU PPDU through the allocated bandwidth (eg, resource unit 1).
  • the AP may allocate uplink resources of each of a plurality of STAs based on a DL MU PPDU (eg, HE-SIG A / B), and each of the plurality of STAs is allocated an uplink resource and transmits a UL MU PPDU. Can be.
  • FIG. 14 is a block diagram illustrating a wireless device to which an embodiment of the present invention can be applied.
  • the wireless device 1400 may be an STA that may implement the above-described embodiment, and may be an AP 1400 or a non-AP station (or STA) 1450.
  • the AP 1400 includes a processor 1410, a memory 1420, and an RF unit 1430.
  • the RF unit 1430 may be connected to the processor 1410 to transmit / receive a radio signal.
  • the processor 1410 may implement the functions, processes, and / or methods proposed in the present invention.
  • the processor 1410 may be implemented to perform the operation of the AP according to the above-described embodiment of the present invention.
  • the processor may perform the operation of the AP disclosed in the embodiment of FIGS. 1 to 13.
  • the processor 1410 may be implemented to generate a PHY layer protocol data unit (PPDU) to be transmitted to a plurality of STAs, and to transmit the PPDU on the entire frequency band to the plurality of STAs.
  • the PPDU may include resource allocation information
  • the resource allocation information may include first resource unit allocation information for allocation of the first resource unit and second resource unit allocation information for allocation of the second resource unit.
  • the first resource unit allocation information may be information related to the allocation of the first resource unit to at least one first STA to receive the PPDU through the first resource unit on the entire frequency band of the plurality of STAs.
  • the second resource unit allocation information may be information related to the allocation of the second resource unit to at least one second STA that will receive the PPDU through the second resource unit on the entire frequency band of a plurality of STAs.
  • the PPDU further includes receiving STA identification information, wherein the receiving STA identification information includes at least one first identification information for each of the at least one first STA and at least one second identification for each of the at least one second STA.
  • Each of the 2 identification information may be included in sequence.
  • the first resource unit allocation information includes information on the number of first resource units to be allocated to each of the at least one first STA corresponding to each of the at least one first identification information
  • the second resource unit The allocation information may include information about the number of second resource units to be allocated to each of the at least one second STA corresponding to each of the at least one second identification information sequentially.
  • the STA 1450 includes a processor 1460, a memory 1470, and a radio frequency unit 1480.
  • the RF unit 1480 may be connected to the processor 1460 to transmit / receive a radio signal.
  • the processor 1460 may implement the functions, processes, and / or methods proposed in the present invention.
  • the processor 1460 may be implemented to perform the operation of the STA according to the above-described embodiment of the present invention.
  • the processor may perform an operation of the STA in the embodiment of FIGS. 1 to 13.
  • the processor 1460 may receive a PPDU and receive downlink data on an allocated resource unit based on resource allocation information and reception STA identification information included in the PPDU.
  • the STA may be allocated the first resource unit and / or the second resource unit based on the resource allocation information and the received STA identification information.
  • Processors 1410 and 1460 may include application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs), other chipsets, logic circuits, data processing devices, and / or converters that convert baseband signals and wireless signals to and from each other.
  • Memory 1420, 1470 May include read-only memory (ROM), random access memory (RAM), flash memory, memory card, storage medium, and / or other storage device.
  • the RF unit 1430 and 1480 may include one or more antennas for transmitting and / or receiving a radio signal.
  • the above-described technique may be implemented as a module (process, function, etc.) for performing the above-described function.
  • the module may be stored in the memories 1420 and 1470 and executed by the processors 1410 and 1460.
  • the memories 1420 and 1470 may be inside or outside the processors 1410 and 1460, and may be connected to the processors 1410 and 1460 by various well-known means.

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